If you read many of my blogs you will know that I love to read books, I get a lot of great information to try out next time I’m in the woods. A year or so ago I gotTony Nester’s BushCraft Tips and Tools, it’s great book let me give a [...] Continue Reading Continue Re...
“My Monster Self”: Violence and Survival in Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder, talking about the work of Carol Beran “Strangers Within the Gates: Margaret Atwood’sWilderness Tips” 2009 CAST OF CHARACTERS IN “WILDERNESS TIPS” Whenever you get three sisters (or three brothers) in fiction, ...
“He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work… When he sat alone in the darkness and...
Minnis, Paul E., and Wayne J. Elisens, eds. 2000.. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. O’Connell, Barry. 1993. William Apess and the Survival of the Pequot People. In, ed. Jane Montague Benes and Peter Benes, 89–100. Boston: Boston University Press. Peyer, Bernd. 1982.. Berlin...
Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati’s epic novel sweeps us into another time and place…and into a breathtaking story of love and survival in a land of savage beauty. It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a...
According to many, "wilderness" experiences are also the best way to teach us such tangible skills as navigation and survival, and help us attain a feeling for a particular geographic region and features. However, it is also thought that additional important lessons can be learned through ...
In a classic adventure novel, it’s all survival and action in unfamiliar places. But for me, this book is about the impossibility of survival in any context. Survival of the physical self, and also a more philosophical, existential survival. Allowing Denny a character to reckon with that (...
There are themes around loyalty, destiny, family/found family, survival, grief, and the power of stories。 These were thought-provoking throughout。 Vega's whole life has centered around a particular destiny of being the Last Astronomer, and she knows that she must fulfill the role she has ...
During the remainder of his life, London wrote and published steadily, completing some 50 books of fiction and nonfiction in 17 years. Although he became the highest-paid writer in the United States at that time, his earnings never matched hisexpenditures, and he was never freed of the urgenc...
the various characters that inhabit her fiction—an internal distance Robinson seems both aware of and grateful for: “There is a great difference,” she notes in an important aside in When I Was a Child I Read Books,“in fiction and in life between knowing someone and knowing about someone...